The US president seems unable to do anything right in the past months, a far cry from the euphoric days 4 years ago. Practically all his new secretaries and advisors are seen to be keeping a low profile, hardly exposed themselves to media critics. That is rather strange. Is America gradually surrendering its superpower-ship? (btt1943, vzc1943)

Alas, the cusrse of the Presidential second term! For reasons I've yet to understand, it seems to afflict every President since I can remember---so I expect Obama's second term to also get bogged down in criticism, controversy, scandal, inactivity; and a seething, boiling mass of "stasis".

If the anti-Morsi protesters really care about democracy, like they claim, they would be wise to demand the release of MB prisoners and the reinstatement of its media. As further arrests continue all the time, and the army's clamp-down deepens, if they had any sense at all, the anti-Morsi protesters would know HOW important this is.
If they haven't realised it yet, when the army killed 51 MB protesters on Monday, it wasn't JUST an attack on the MB alone. Indirectly, they also sent the ANTI-Morsi protesters a very clear message: If THEY ever wake up, and realise the army's here to stay, they'll know what they'll be up against the next time they want to protest...

A wrong process can never build a right system. The Egyptian army has committed a serious mistake ousting elected President Mohamed Morsi, and by this the Army has lost all of their credibility to play neutral/fair. The problems that have brought wrath to the Morsi's Government have been there for decades, so army should not have interfered in the elected government supporting a handful protesters which the media has manufactured as millions, but the video footage from AJE shows the real scene. Had the Morsi been given the "Aladin Lamp" like QE(Quantitative Easing) of Barack Obama (where they just produce dollars without any gold reserve and manipulate globally, and other powerful players are also doing the same), he could have solved much of the economic related problems like Barak Obama. Whereas there was severe dissent against Barak Obama, he has been again elected as president without any interference from military or so on. Guys, even a charismatic president needs time to solve the problem, because there is no magical genie in the real world. So, Morsi should be reinstated for his appointed term provided he is given full freedom to work properly...

I know this doesn't have anything to do with Egypt specifically; but as you've mentioned Quantitative Easing, I feel I ought to say a few words on the subject...

Trust me, QE is NO "Aladdin's Lamp" at all; and is one of the biggest con-tricks we've ever been happy to fall for...

As far as I can see, the only thing it does is to provide the money markets with further chips to gamble with...and every time a government even "hints" at stopping QE, traders DELIBERATELY allow the money markets to tumble and force QE to continue (it's the financial equivalent of sending governments a mafiosi "horse's head" to wake up to)...

So while it allows the markets to benefit, it drives up inflation and leaves the public to absorb the shock...And while it's sold to the public as a great idea THEY never feel the benefits...

For any doubters, here's a simple question: "If" QE IS such a great idea, why not just print ENOUGH money to clear ALL our national debts?---surely, that SHOULD improve our credit rating, enable cheap credit; and return confidence to the economy?..

Of course, QE would NEVER be used so DIRECTLY...if it was, it would soon be exposed for the fairground "card-trick" it really is.

Thank you, for you have raised some relevant questions. By the by, even though QE is not a real solution at all, but corporates can survive well as long as they manipulate and improvise it with other means.

Reading the part that Military gunned down the innocent protesters reminds of the similar conspiracy that happened during Libyan crisis. I am still wondering this time what US is looking to gain from this conspired instability.

Is it not a convention of democratic politics that when the government of the day exceeds its mandate -- and particularly if it creates a crisis -- it resign and seek a new mandate through elections?
Morsi's mandate did not include centralizing power in the office of the President. Morsi's mandate did not include creating a constitution based on sharia law. Morsi's mandate did not include advocating reprisal against Christians or his party's opponents.
This was no coup d'etat, which is a clandestine affair executed by a small group. This was a revolution by those whom their President had cut off from the benefits and protection of the state.
Democracy cannot be entrusted to Islamists because they will use democracy to subvert democracy. I see no reason why, as in the past, the Muslim Brotherhood should not be outlawed.
Is a military dictatorship any better? Unfortunately, in that part of the world, yes. The principal agenda of the military is to protect its enterprises and privileges through social stability. As long as particular groups don't interfere with that goal, they will enjoy freedom.

The Muslim Brotherhood has existed since the 1920's and have lived in the shadows ever since. They are not done here and neither is their international backer (The Obama Administration). Till this day, I'm still not sure what Obama's strategy was in backing the MB, but it has failed miserably. Now his administration is biting their lip and getting as close as possible to calling this a coup, without actually doing so.

Calling this a coup would mean the US would be obligated to follow through on their threat and cut off aid. Egypt is then liable to join the Russian/Iranian/Syrian axis in search of aid. They would be welcomed with open arms if this scenario played out. Therefore, the Obama administration will have to continue with its hypocritical policy and say this was not a coup, in order to keep Egypt away from Russian influence.

The Egyptian military has spotted this and is taking advantage of it. I had predicted one year ago that the military would prop up the MB and wait for them to fail. Once they do so, the military would sweep in and save the day. They would then look like the hero's while taking a very hard jab at their historical foe. This scenario has played out just as I suspected it would. They prop up some patsy to play president for a while while they manipulate the political climate and make sure a pro-military president takes the votes.

The only good thing that has come out of all this is that the Egyptian people have learned that the MB is a joke, and so is the Salafi Nour Party.

I urge the Egyptian people to continue their determination in getting a leader in power who actually represents Egypts best interests.

I urge our president, Obama, to stop with the hypocritical ME policies. Issue a statement that this was in fact a coup, and that the US will only resume its aid to Egypt if the newly elected administration is fit to be classified as a US ally.

The anti-Morsi protesters need to adopt a far more scrutinizing and sceptical attitude towards the military if they even HOPE to have anything resembling a democracy now...

Don't get me wrong. Scrutiny and scepticism might very well NOT work---but the blind adjulation they're showing right now is just begging for trouble...Not only does it make it easier for the army to betray them; but their cries for help won't feel credible if that DOES happen.

The military is playing a dirty game between the US, Russia, and Egypt.

The MB is playing a dirty game between the people of Egypt and the US.

The protesters need to realize this and take advantage of the fact that the military got rid of Morsi for them. Now it's time to turn that wrath on the military and demand open and fair elections. With those elections should come a president that isn't stupid enough to fall under Russian influence, but is smart enough not to listen to everything the US tells him to do. Let's not forget, it's in our best interest that Egypt remains stable and intact.

While I don't trust the military at all (and won't trust them until it delivers on its promises), it's still GOOD news that the interim government has outlined some kind of road-map for elections...

I'm also EXTREMELY relieved that there seems to be relative calm in Cairo after yesterday's killings (I imagine most people around the world feared the worst when it happened). It's still early days; but so far, so good. Let's hope it stays that way...

I don't agree that a coup was the best way of removing Morsi at all...but I do think the most important thing now is to get the democracy movement back on track...

ALL Egyptians have some difficult and ADULT decisions to make; and excluding the Muslim Brotherhood from the process will be a mistake---they still represent a very large part of the electorate, however incompetent they might have been...

After what's happened, I can understand if they don't even WANT to participate again---but NOT participating would also be a mistake; and the very fact that they're stressing the need for "peaceful" protest (for the moment, at least), suggests they haven't closed the door to that option entirely---If their arrested members are released and their media ban lifted, it "might" help the situation (admittedly, I'm purely guessing here)...

Although we "might" look back on Egypt and see it as yet another example of Middle Eastern chaos, my impression (and it IS just an impression) is that no one, HOWEVER angry, wants to see Egypt turn into Syria...

So while I think the coup was the wrong move...and others think it was the right one, for the good of Egypt, it's very important to make that question irrelevant...and move on. Even if it WAS the wrong move, it doesn't HAVE to produce a bad outcome...

If democracy (with MINIMAL army involvement) DOES get restored AND the Muslim Brotherhood aren't deliberately excluded from politics, Egypt might just about be able to ensure enough "consensus-based" security to attract some urgently needed outside investment...

As I said, it's too early to say; but I'm just HOPING that today's calm creates a breathing space for some kind of constructive progress---a chance to stare at the precipice again...and walk way.

This lying zionist propaganda magazine is trying to make it appear as if the people of Egypt are in support of its military rulers, and together are against the outgoing Prime Minister Morsi and his elected Muslim Brotherhood government. It paints a picture of a grassroots movement that not only has a say in who governs Egypt but also “will not budge on its choice”, as if the populist protests had acquired some form of real power. Unbelievably, these protesters for change have supposedly selected a former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency as their new interim leader!
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Protesters of the Arab Spring are against the oppressive puppet governments which rule them on behalf of Israel and the United States. This Egyptian grassroots movement would never support the current military leaders, who are there primarily to suppress protests against Israeli war crimes in Palestine.

And the US of course, and even...the Economist (!) are supposedly in on the conspiracy as well. Personally I think that Morsi and the MB's sidelining of other groups had nothing to do with instability.

The US and their Gulf despotic satraps brew yet another civil war in the ME.

It is no secret the US and their Egypt military stooges made a military putsch to get rid of the democratically elected government of Egypt, simply because Morsi is not yet another US marionette like what the US-supported criminal Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak was.

The Egypt military who conducted the current military putsch in Egypt are financed and take their marching orders by the US via the US satraps in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

They DO NOT act on behalf of the Egypt people, what is evident by the fact that the Egypt military did not dispose of the US supported dictator Mubarak despite the HUGE Egypt public protests against him. After the crowd finally succeeded to dispose of the US-supported despot it was the the Egypt military that took the power "to pacify" the protests and did not wanted to give up power for months.

Here is what Putin have to say about the sorry state of the Egypt :

ASTANA, July 7 (RIA Novosti) – Egypt is on the verge of a civil war, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday as tensions continued to escalate in the North African country between the supporters and opponents of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.

“Syria is already engulfed in a civil war and, no matter how sad it may sound, Egypt is also moving in the same direction. It would be good, if the Egyptian people avoided this fate,” Putin said during his working visit to Kazakhstan.

"It is no secret the US and their Egypt military stooges made a military putsch to get rid of the democratically elected government of Egypt, simply because Morsi is not yet another US marionette"

Your version of a conspiracy (among hundreds of competing others) alas conflicts with others, even on this same page, eg. one says that the US is secretly backing the MB. For me, trying to choose which conspiracy is the one true version is like trying to choose which of the 100's of religions is the correct version, if any. If yours is correct, then all the others are wrong. So I'm confused. I feel I am on the verge of adhering to your faith in this. But please, I need a little more convincing. Do you have free magazines or services I can go to for additional indoctrination?

So hard to achieve democracy in the Arab world. There seem to be two common themes wrecking democracy. Either it is egomaniac politicians who immediately grab for their own dictatorship (and their legacy's) once in power. Or, extreme Muslims who feel they must dictate how others live their lives. Or some combination of the two.

1. Don't use a big city as your capital. Use a small one like in the US or Australia. This way the central government is less likely to be abducted by residents of the capital city. Thailand and Egypt are examples.

2. If you have to use a big city as your capital, at least don't allow a big square to exist in that city. It's even worse if that square has significant historical or symbolic importance. Egypt is an example.

The official White House statement thus far is that what happened in Egypt was not a coup. Unless there was something released today that I missed. It seems as if the Obama administration is biting its lip and holding everything back from calling it what it is.

This is another classic example of Obama putting himself in a situation where he has to be a hypocrite no matter which decision he takes. That's what he gets for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in the first place. If he calls it a coup, then he'll have to cut aid to Egypt, potentially causing them to seek aid from Russia, and therefore being on the side of Iran and Syria. If he denies it was a coup, then he would be outright lying.

Seems like the same situation he put himself in when the initial protests against Mubarak went down two years ago. This is by far the most hypocritical administration to lead the US.

Your analysis of the Middle East just can't be as simple as Shiaa v. Suni. That's a really naive way to look at things.

Egypt is not a typical Arab country. National pride runs extremely deep in Egypt, unlike the rest of the Arab world. Egyptians consider themselves Egyptian first, then Arab second. Egyptians are also mostly very moderate in their religion. The proof is in the tens of millions of protesters who risked their safety to ensure that Sharia law does not take hold in the country.

Back in the 50's the US agreed to help Egypt build a dam on the Nile. Shortly after the beginning of that project the US pulled out and reneged on the deal. The Egyptians quickly secured a similar deal with the Russians and because of this Egypt became a Soviet ally. About 20 years later the Soviets proved a lousy ally and Egypt ended up doing something that no one, I mean NO ONE, saw coming. Switching back to the US and signing a peace treaty with Israel. Surely Israel was a larger enemy to Egypt in the 70's than Iran is today.

What is the point in me saying all this? Egypt has proven to act in its best interests and show little loyalty to the US, Russians, or the rest of the Arab world. If pushed the wrong way, it will take up sides with Russia/Iran/Syria. Don't think this Suni/Shiaa BS will stop Egypt from doing something like that.

Oh no sir, it is you who is lacking the facts. Egypt and Iran were on good terms in the 50, did you forget that the Shah ended up in Egypt after being exiled from Iran?

Morsi won his elections in the poor, mostly illiterate villages in Egypt. He lost in Cairo, Alexandria, and Ismailia. In other words, the cities with higher literacy rates voted against him, and that says a lot considering the opposition was from Mubarak's old cabinet.

You are contradicting yourself by trying to simplify everything in the ME to a Shia/Sunni split, it goes deeper than this. Egypt will turn on its Sunni allies if it's between joining the Russian axis or dying. The military, who is firmly in control now, will not allow Egypt to fall into total chaos. They will side with the Russians if pushed hard enough.

It won't be a total switch of sides overnight. It will be gradual, and with a pinch of nationalistic propaganda, the Egyptians will swallow it. If this happens, and it's a big if, it will start with something small, like Russia demanding diplomatic relations be restored in return for economic and military aid.

The point is, don't discount it. The American government sure hasn't, so what makes you think you can?

Mubarak's remainant forces and the wealthy and powerful in Egypt are behind this chaos,for Morsi is a pro-masses president. Since ancient times, one who works for the benefits of the masses never lasts long and is doomed to perish quickly due to the proactive conspiracy from those whose benefits are harmed. Egypt needs not a reform but a revolution.

moslembrothers are like taliban, who used to be in power in afghanistan. Go there and ask the mass of women, the people of culture, art and seculars moslems how they have been treated by the brach of brotherhood over there.

The whole situation is eerie, Islamists call for uprising, generals call for suppressing. If Islamists get their hands on weapons somehow, civil war would be deemed inevitable. No peace loving person wants another Syria in the offing. But there may be some who can't wait to see yet another nation imploding right in front of their eyes. (ttm1943)

I'm sure Islamists with nuclear weapons would be no worst than Jews with nuclear weapons. If the kind of crap thats being said on this website about Islam were ever said about Judaism, all you'd hear would be cries of 'Anti-Semite!' and 'Nazi!'.